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Long Meg and her daughters, the famous Dru- idical monument in the adjoining parish of Little- Sal keld, three miles from Kirkoswald, was not to be passed without examination. We found it standing in two inclosures to the right hand of the road. Though not so august as Stonehenge in the whole, nor so vast in its parts, it seems to have been a more extensive arrangement of stones; the cir- cumference measuring three hundred and fifty yards. Upwards of sixty of the stones are now standing upright, overlooked by an isolated mass of much greater dimensions than the other, placed about seventeen yards from the southern side of the circle; a circumstance that has suggested to the vulgar mind the idea of a parent and its children. Their substances are different ; some of flint, some of blue and white lyas, and many of granite; but no trace of a tool can be discovered in any of them; and what is still more extraordinary, the country around to a great distance offers no stones of a similar kind on any part of its surface. The work, like that of Abury, exhibits an example of immense labour, unassisted by even the rudiments of art; and may perhaps be considered as one of the most ancieni temples in the three kingdoms. A noble ' ' mdea from its area, bounded only by

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